First of all, I'll start on the ones I can help you with.
Technology in the grain industry is unbelievable. Even this year, as we fight through rain and other problems we're having right now, we're going to see some exceptional yields in durum and oats. They're talking about durum getting close to 100 bushels an acre, huge amounts. That's only going to grow as we go along.
Maybe one positive side of global warming is that we're seeing that we're able to grow different types of crops farther north, especially in Saskatchewan. That's opening up what we can grow and, again, the yields up there.... We only see that expanding. Down the road, the size of the crop, even in a normal year, is going to get to be pretty significant. I think that will continue.
Why don't people use interswitching? Possibly one of the issues was that last year we ran out of grain. In May and June, we were basically out. When you're out of grain, the need to use competitive points isn't there. I'm not sure it was a fair test of interswitching last year. You may see that it is different.
Some of the railways have products, as you're aware, and in those products, or in the tariffs, they've gotten around interswitching a little bit by saying that you can only use those products at either a CP or a CN location. It kind of eliminates your ability to go somewhere else.
On a positive side, I've seen a real change, especially at CN this past year, towards trying to allow customers to manage their own destiny. They have not really stuck to products as much, but have tried to say, “What do you need to move your product?” I thought CN did an excellent job this year and it is in good shape. The other guy, maybe not so much, but I do think there are some positive steps there. That's why, when it comes to the interswitching provision, I'm not sure it will ever actually attain what it was intended to do, if that makes any sense.